Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 139)

Kenneth Pike's influence spread far and wide during the last half of the twentieth century. The contributors to this volume are just a few of the thousands of scholars whose work was influenced by Pike's teaching and writing. These essays will help younger scholars grasp something of his intellectual influence through his contribution to linguistics, anthropology, and many other disciplines. Long before the concept of "endangered languages" came into vogue in the 1990s, Pike was instilling in his students the importance of recording, preserving, and working to keep alive the thousands of unwritten languagesMary Ruth Wise is the author of 'Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 139)', published 2003 under ISBN 9781556711404 and ISBN 1556711409.